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Oklahoma FCCLA Feeds The Children Family Career and Community Leaders of America members are gearing up for a new outreach project with Feed the Children’s Truck Sponsorship Program. The Oklahoma FCCLA organization has set a goal to sponsor two Feed the Children trucks. Each sponsored truck provides 400 pre-packaged boxes of food, 400 boxes of personal care and hygiene items, and two pallets of miscellaneous goods to impoverished families. The items in one truck can supplement meals for 400 families of four for approximately one week. “The project goal is for every FCCLA state association to raise $7,200, which is equivalent to one truck of supplies,” said Denise Morris, Oklahoma FCCLA adviser. “Any funds raised by a state association that exceeds the $7,200 goal will be applied towards the national project goal.” Family and Consumer Sciences Education, and its affiliated student organization FCCLA, are integral components in the CareerTech system. This national student organization helps young men and women become leaders and address important personal, family, work and societal issues. More than 13,000 Oklahoma students in junior and senior high school are members of FCCLA. The national FCCLA organization set its outreach project goals to assist Feed the Children during the 2007-2008 year. Feed The Children is an international, nonprofit relief organization with headquarters in Oklahoma City since its inception in 1979. The organization delivers food, medicine, clothing and other necessities to individuals, children and families who lack these essentials due to famine, war, poverty or natural disaster. The idea behind outreach programs is to illustrate the power of FCCLA. The national outreach project for two consecutive years has been Relay for Life. Making a significant impact, FCCLA raised more than $300,000 for the organization. Nationally FCCLA has more than 220,000 members and nearly 7,000 chapters from 50 state associations and the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The organization has involved more than 10 million youth since its founding in 1945. FCCLA is one of seven CareerTech student organizations affiliated with
CareerTech programs. The other six are FFA and Agricultural Education,
DECA and Marketing Education, HOSA and Health Careers Education, Business
Professionals of America and Business and Information Technology Education,
Technology Student Association and Technology Education and Skills USA
and Trade and Industry education.
Posted December 7, 2007 |